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Early prostate cancer detection, screening: No benefit for men with low baseline PSA value

Men aged 55 to 74 years who have low baseline blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) are not likely to benefit from further screening and treatment. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists developing cancer breath test

Scientists working on a breath test to detect cancer said they were now able to identify different types of the disease, in research published Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Predicting higher risk for prostate cancer diagnosis

High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) carries a high predictive value for future diagnosis of prostate cancer. Research published in the open access journal BMC Urology has shown that 41.8% of patients whose ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Scientists develop ultra-sensitive test that detects diseases in their earliest stages

Scientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages, in research published today in the journal Nature Materials.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technique detects trace levels of new class of cancer biomarkers

(Phys.org) -- In less than a decade, a new type of RNA — microRNA (miRNA) — has gone from curiosity to one of the most important sets of regulatory molecules in the body. And because these short pieces of RNA are ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why 'soot' could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells

Nano-scale tubes made of carbon could be used to safely penetrate human cells and deliver anti-cancer medicines or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy. Although there is a long way to go before the concept ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A good nose: Researchers decipher interaction of fragrances and olfactory receptors

Banana, mango or apricot - telling these smells apart is no problem for the human nose. How the olfactory organ distinguishes such similar smells has been uncovered by an interdisciplinary team of German researchers at the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research promises better collection of prostate cancer cells

At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cancer detection from an implantable, flexible LED

Can a flexible LED conformably placed on the human heart, situated on the corrugated surface of the human brain, or rolled upon the blood vessels, diagnose or even treat various diseases? These things might ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breakthrough technology in identification of prostate cancer cells

– A team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has developed a breakthrough technology that can be used to discriminate cancerous prostate cells in bodily fluids from those that are healthy. The findings ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing

Blood tests are important diagnostic tools. They accurately tease-out vanishingly small concentrations of proteins and other molecules that help give a picture of overall health or signal the presence of specific ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ultrasensitive particles offer new way to find cancer

About 10 years ago, scientists discovered a new type of genetic material called microRNA, which appears to turn genes on or off inside a cell. More recently, they found that these genetic snippets often go ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PSA test for men could get a second life for breast cancer in women

The widely known PSA blood test for prostate cancer in men may get a second life as a much-needed new test for breast cancer, the most common form of cancer in women worldwide, scientists are reporting in a new study in the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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